Jul 12, 2007

Vinyl Data: text-adventures & ZX Spectrum Games

I've always preferred LPs over CDs, you know, and that was ages before reading the Vinyl Data article by Kempa.com and finally finding out quite a few of them records came with some lovely hidden ZX Spectrum software on their tracks. Now, I'm beyond love. It's lust and I just have to search for the fabled contraption that will allow me to connect my turntable to the PC. Ahh, yes, lovely 8-bit programs encoded on vinyl and satanic Stranglers tapes, here I come... As for you dear readers, well, why not find out more?

if it's any help (knowing it probably isn't) the C64 used a series of tape recorded sonic "chatter" to transmit the data through the cassette head to the giggledee googalee bits in the C64's gizzards..